29 Quotes by Jim Ratcliffe

We believe Ineos is a refreshing place to work. We believe strongly in employee share ownership.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.

There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.

It would be nice if areas could be revitalised - like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have been transformed through shale. There you have shiny cars in a shiny city because of the development of shale in an old industrial heartland.

Do your analysis of energy costs. Either it comes from windmills and solar or things like nuclear and shale gas. You have to think about how you provide competitive energy for U.K. Ltd.

The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.

It's always been hard work for us to manufacture in the U.K. It's not a particularly profitable place for us.

I'm very cheerful about coming back to the U.K. We increasingly found ourselves gravitating towards London. There was so much going on for our business, and we had grown substantially here.